THE 



WILSON BULLETIN 



NO. 61. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY 



VOL. XIX. DECEMBER, 1907. NO. 4 



JUNE WITH THE BIRDS OF THE WASHINGTON 



COAST. 



Around Cape Flattery. 



lynds jones. 



June 3rd, 1907, was only a few minutes old when the ex- 

 pedition of which I shall speak in this and subsequent numbers 

 of the Bulletin, began with the casting off from the wharf at 

 Seattle. W^e were asleep, but that did not seem to hinder the 

 departure of the boat. 



Our party consisted of Rev. W. L. Dawson, two women who 

 were in quest of information from the Indians and material for 

 short stories, the writer, and an amount of baggage sufficient 

 for an expedition to the South Pole. Since the expedition was 

 to be one in which the camera must pla}' the most prominent 

 part, cameras and appropriate materials for this work bulked 

 large and weighed heavy. Former experience with films 

 had proved their unreliability for the finest work, so plates, 

 heavy and fragile as they are, were taken by the gross. We 

 would do the same thing again. 



Morning found us steaming outward near the west shore 

 of Admiralty Inlet. Birds w'ere scarce on and over the water 

 until we approached Port Townsend, on the division line be- 

 tween the Inlet and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Here birds 



